Projects: public

Rooftop Retail Precinct

An invited competition to design a new retail, entertainment & office precinct. This scheme presents a rooftop place that is less uniform, less structured and more organic in industrial form and character.

It is inspired by the faded and redundant existing roof elements; a raw, yet comfortable – distorted and durable – fuzzy feedback form that evolves and responds to the metabolism of the place – and aims to create zero waste.

The Rooftop Retail Precinct presents a mixed use destination with unique identity. It is a curated & genuine retail space unlike any other shopping centre. The project takes precedent from the cultural identity of Melbourne’s laneways & creates a series of larger spaces, with residual nooks intended to:
- inspire a sense of discovery;
- possess the flexibility to offer a diversity of retail uses; &
- enable its masterplan to evolve over a longer term.